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“Black Market Baby“ by Tom Waits from the album ’Mule Variations’
Lyrics
She lives in a house
that’s way back off the road
There’s a man with a lantern
and he carries her soul
A coal stove and a bed
A skillet and a hound
She drove a camel through
A needle
In this sinking board walk town
She’s my Black Market baby
She’s my Black Market baby
She’s a diamond that
wants to stay coal
wants to stay coal
I swang out wide with her
on hells iron gate
Anything that you wanted
you could have
My eyes say their prayers to her
sailors ring her bell
Like a moth mistakes a light bulb
For the moon and goes to hell
She’s my Black Market baby
She’s my Black Market baby
She’s a diamond that
wants to stay coal
wants to stay coal
There’s no prayer like desire
There’s amnesia in her kiss
She’s a swan and a